The American Spectator works over this hysterical editorial from the Washington Post.
It seems to me that those who genuinely believe that laws banning gun ownership will reduce crime have given very little thought to the nature of criminals. Why should we expect people who have no compunction about violating laws against murder, rape and theft would be inclined to obey a law against owning a handgun? Of course, posing that question to the political left will do little good. They'll just respond with hysteria.
The question we all ask, over and over, and they never give us a reasonable answer.  This question is the biggest reason for my belief that they are not well-intentioned by misled in their attempts to reduce crime.  They are interested only in domination, and care nothing for real crime control.